Articles By B Raman
New Delhi must regularly interact with Dalai Lama
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2010
The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, needs to be complimented for standing firm to China and refusing to be bullied by it into not attending the Oslo function on December 10, 2010, in honour...
The myths exposed by Wikileaks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2010
The confidential cables exchanged between the US State Department and the US diplomatic missions abroad, which have been released by WikiLeaks, expose the following five myths: Firstly, the myth...
Zardari in Sri Lanka: Counter-Balancing India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2010
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan visited Sri Lanka from November 27 to 30, 2010, at the invitation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Among those who accompanied him were Shah Mehmood...
Time to stop appeasing China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2010
The Government of India has not yet indicated its response to the reported pressure from the Chinese Government to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize Award function proposed to be held at Oslo on...
The internal political situation in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Dec , 2010
An editorial published on October 15, 2010, by the Communist Party controlled “Global Times” said:“China has changed a lot. In the future it will continue to adopt gradualism to bring about...
Wikileaks: The Chinese Shiver
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2010
The Chinese authorities have told their people of the tsunami of documents of the US Government being flooded into the public domain by WikiLeaks. They are surprised that the US Government has...
Wikileaks: Intelligence of Interest to India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
Wikileaks has claimed to have received from its source 251,287 documents, which are mainly diplomatic cables of a classification lower than “Top Secret” exchanged between the US State Department...
Wikileaks: Implications of Leakage of US Diplomatic Cables
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Nov , 2010
The leakage by WikiLeaks of over 200,000 diplomatic cables exchanged between the US State Department and its diplomatic missions abroad could have serious implications for US diplomacy and for...
26/11: Pak Army Irregulars attack Mumbai-II
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 26 Nov , 2010
According to the Hindustan Times ( December 2, 2008), the LeT’s name as the main plotter of a sea-borne terrorist strike in Mumbai directed against some sea front hotels figured in three...
Indian Intelligence: the fiddling has to stop...
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.4 Oct-Dec 2007 | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
The evolution of the Indian intelligence community since 1947 has been on the basis of periodic reviews of our enquiries into perceived intelligence failures. After the Sino-Indian war of 1962, a...
Mumbai 26/11: Take Pakistan ISI to court
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2010
Since the Madrid conference on “Democracy & Terrorism” held in March 2005, to which I was invited,I have been repeatedly writing and speaking on the need for victim activism in India in order...
Continuing North Korean threat to regional peace & stability
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Nov , 2010
The continuing North Korean threat to regional peace and stability has again been demonstrated by its surprise artillery attack on the Yeonpyeong island under South Korean control on November...
Al Qaeda's Operation Haemorrhage
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Nov , 2010
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which has already claimed responsibility for the failed attempts to send two parcel bombs to Chicago by courier planes of the FedExpress and the UPS on...
High-speed rail between Yunnan and Myanmar on agenda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2010
The “People’s Daily Online” has carried the following report on November 22, 2010. Construction of a high-speed rail link between Yunnan province and neighboring Myanmar, part of a project to...
Chinese avionics & missiles for Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Nov , 2010
The Chinese Communist Party controlled “Global Times” has reported as follows on November 18,2010: Pakistan inks deal for Chinese missiles by Xu Tianran in Zhuhai and Chris Dalby in...
China defends decision to dam the Brahmaputra
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Nov , 2010
In continuing disregard of India’s major concern over the implications of the daming of the Brahmaputra River in order to construct a hydel power station at Zangmu in the so-called Tibet...
India and Aung San Suu Kyi : Quo Vadis?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
In her speeches, statements and interviews since her release from house arrest by the military Junta , Aung San Suu Kyi, the Myanmar pro-democracy leader, has already given some indication of her...
Is Copy-Cat of Mumbai 26/11 Possible in Indonesia?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2010
Is a copy-cat act of terrorism similar to the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai possible in Indonesia? That is a question that needs examination following the disclosures made by the Indonesian...
Wen to combine visit to Pakistan with visit to India?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2010
Pakistani agency journalists accompanying President Asif Ali Zardari on his present visit to Guangzhou in China to attend the inaugural function of the 16th Asian Games, have reported that...
Obama's visit : US, India & China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Nov , 2010
On his way to China in November,2009, President Barack Obama had made his first halt in Japan to underline the importance attached by him to the USA’s relations with Japan, with which it has a...